by Guy Reichard | Mar 25, 2025 | Authentic Self, self leadership
A New Way to Relate to Yourself
This book is about solving the disconnect from your Authentic Self – not by fighting yourself, but by learning to listen, communicate, and lead yourself with heart, with compassion.
✔️ It explains the fundamentals of Self Leadership – the lifelong practice of living and leading from your Authentic Self.
✔️ It teaches Parts Work – how to recognize, understand, and harmonize the different parts of your psyche.
✔️ It includes exercises, dialogue examples, and guided practices to help you start these life-changing inner conversations.
✔️ It helps create safety within your mind, body, and nervous system so you can move beyond fear-driven reactions.
✔️ It shows you how to transform shame, pain, and fear into deeper self-acceptance.
by Guy Reichard | Feb 12, 2025 | coaching, self leadership, trauma
Positive Intelligence, aka PQ, focuses on identifying and overcoming internal ‘saboteurs’ – so-called negative thought patterns that can interfere with success and wellbeing. While this model resonates with many, it also presents critical limitations, particularly for individuals with histories of trauma, chronic stress, or unresolved inner conflict.
This article examines the strengths and shortcomings of the PQ framework, exposes the risks of oversimplified coaching approaches and inadequate coach education, and makes the case for a more trauma-wise, compassionate, and heart-centered approach – one that supports both coaches and individuals in fostering deeper self-awareness, self-acceptance, healing, and authentic growth.
by Guy Reichard | Oct 25, 2024 | resilience, self leadership
Imagine a compass guiding you in life, not just to “survive” but to live deeply, meaningfully, and resiliently. The HeartRich Resilience Compass is designed with nine interconnected facets, each representing an area of your inner world and a suite of principles and processes or skillsets we can learn.
When you learn to turn these ‘Dials of Influence’ from the negative, destructive side toward the positive, life-affirming side, you begin to embody your truest self. You no longer react out of fear, avoidance, or survival; instead, you consciously choose your responses, acting with intention, clarity, and heart.
by Guy Reichard | Aug 28, 2024 | Authentic Self, leadership, resilience, self leadership, stress, trauma
Is Stress Changing Who You Are? It’s highly likely that the toll of chronic stress is silently reshaping you, and without understanding how to manage it, the risks to your wellbeing, family life, and leadership effectiveness are only growing.
I would like to share a model to help explain what might be happening, from a neurophysiological perspective, called the Window of Tolerance.
by Guy Reichard | Jul 3, 2024 | self leadership, trauma
“In the relentless pursuit of success, many high-achieving executives wear their burnout as a badge of honor, not realizing it’s a complex condition that can be rooted in trauma, as well as cause it.”
At the heart of this issue lies the High Achiever’s Dilemma: being in perpetual pursuit of achievement, while continuously increasing one’s standards and expectations of themselves, and no matter what they achieve and accomplish, they never feel “I am enough”. There is a void where there should be a natural sense of worth, self worth and ‘Good Enoughness’
by Guy Reichard | Feb 14, 2024 | self leadership
All that consistently critical and demanding self talk robs a person of their natural confidence, self esteem, and inner peace.
Without our natural confidence, self-esteem and trust in ourselves, self-doubt not only creeps in but begins to predominate and interfere with how we show up in life, at work and in relationships.
Learn how to transform that Menacing Monster into a Cuddly Caretaker
